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Inside: Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/
#Pluralistic
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Inside: Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/
#Pluralistic
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Cory Doctorow
•https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/
Wednesday (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood with Harry Shearer for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's *Finding the Money*:
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Authors AllianceCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/3
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112421906431901977
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Cory Doctorow
2024-05-11 10:09:16
Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/4
* No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story https://locusmag.com/2024/05/cory-doctorow-no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/
* Heat Death of the Internet https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/
* The Disability Inclusion Fund Launches Second RFP for the DIF x Tech Fund https://borealisphilanthropy.org/2024/04/04/the-disability-inclusion-fund-launches-second-rfp-for-the-dif-x-tech-fund/
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Heat Death of the Internet - takahē
estretton (takahē)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/5
#20yrsago Pixel-counting can un-redact government docs https://cryptome.org/cia-decrypt.htm
#20yrsago MPAA’s Bizarro-world logic https://web.archive.org/web/20060508195757/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119414,00.html
#20yrsago Stanislaw Lem is cranky! https://web.archive.org/web/20040513235656/http://www.mosnews.com/interview/2004/04/06/lem.shtml
#20yrsago @internetarchive's Petabox: a 1,000 terabyte array https://archive.org/web/petabox.php
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FOXNews.com - Recordable DVDs New Target of Hollywood - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/6
#15yrsago Selling fiber broadband by inviting users to dig their own trenches https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/norwegian-isp-dig-your-own-fiber-trench-save-400/
#15yrsago Free ebooks’ effects on book-sales https://web.archive.org/web/20090515095615/http://bloggasm.com/did-random-houses-free-online-book-releases-affect-sales
#15yrsago Pirate Bay founder proposes to pay his fine with tiny, expensive-to-receive payments https://web.archive.org/web/20090514014403/http://www.blogpirate.org/2009/05/10/pirate-bay-founder-crafts-distributed-denial-of-dollars-attack/
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Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400
Ars TechnicaCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/7
#15yrsago Cornell says no to restrictions on public domain materials https://web.archive.org/web/20090515100044/http://news.library.cornell.edu/com/news/PressReleases/Cornell-University-Library-Removes-All-Restrictions-on-Use-of-Public-Domain-Reproductions.cfm
#15yrsago Antifascist collages that made Hitler crazy https://web.archive.org/web/20090513034540/http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Visual-Arts/The-Extraordinary-Anti-Nazi-Photomontages-of-John-Heartfield.702053
#10yrsago Amazon patents taking pictures of stuff on a white background https://www.diyphotography.net/can-close-studio-amazon-patents-photographing-seamless-white/
#5yrsago Delta targets its workers with anti-union apps that push deceptive memes https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/10/delta-targets-its-workers-with-anti-union-apps-that-push-deceptive-memes/
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You Can Close The Studio, Amazon Patents Photographing On Seamless White
Udi Tirosh (DIY Photography)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/8
#5yrsago A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/1/18311548/college-admissions-secrets-myths
#5yrsago Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/why-you-should-back-the-sanders-aoc-plan-to-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-at-15-re-launch-the-postal-savings-bank.html
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Why You Should Back the Sanders/AOC Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%, Re-Launch the Postal Savings Bank | naked capitalism
Yves Smith (naked capitalism)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/9
#5yrsago Google mistakenly handed out a reporter’s cellphone number to people searching for Facebook tech support https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmpm43/google-thought-my-phone-number-was-facebooks-and-it-ruined-my-life
#5yrsago After elderly tenant was locked in his apartment by his landlord’s stupid “smart lock,” tenants win right to use actual keys to enter their homes https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/tenants-win-rights-to-physical-keys-over-smart-locks-from-landlords/
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Tenants win as settlement orders landlords give physical keys over smart locks
Alfred Ng (CNET)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/10
#5yrsago Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 https://www.techdirt.com/2019/05/10/broad-coalition-tells-congress-to-bring-back-office-technology-assessment/
#5yrsago Beto O’Rourke just hired a “senior advisor” who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons https://theintercept.com/2019/05/11/beto-orourke-campaign-staff-lobbyist-keystone-xl/
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Newest Beto O’Rourke Hire Lobbied for Keystone XL, Seaworld, and Private Prisons
Clio Chang (The Intercept)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/11
#5yrsago @xychelsea@quitter.no's statement on the occasion of her release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDZGRRk4MnM
#1yrago 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes' https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/11/ugly-houses-ugly-truth/#homevestor
#1yrago Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/soft-landings/#e2e-r2e
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Chelsea Manning's Statement on Release from Jail and Second Grand Jury Subpeona
YouTubeCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/12
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112410398902645965
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Cory Doctorow
2024-05-09 09:22:45
Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/13
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Both are national bestsellers!
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup
www.booksoup.comCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/14
https://craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/15
* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the
* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention
* HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
https://www.hope.net/talks.html
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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Authors AllianceCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/16
* Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hITj793htg&t=398s
* That Word Chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwEy_mACEY
* Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore (Torino Biennale Tecnologia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg
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Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress: Cory Doctorow (Kanada)
YouTubeCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/17
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Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/eof
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/
Wednesday (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood with Harry Shearer for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's *Finding the Money*:
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Authors AlliancePRNE
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Cory Doctorow
•EndlessMason
•Coach Pāṇini ®
•- Marshall McLuhan, 1967
Cory Doctorowudostępnił to.